Mariners’ Church Of Detroit aka: Maritime Sailors’ Cathedral
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Bill is moving to Wash DC from Illinois 11/27
Washington, D.C.
Worth visiting!
The first time I went to this place
It was nice to hear about the Blessing of the Fleet in March and the Memorial in November for those who have died on the Great Lakes.
Bill is moving to Wash DC from Illinois 11/27
Washington, D.C.
Worth visiting!
Why I want to go to this place
The lyrics to Gordon Lightfoot’s song, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald speak of the Maritime Sailor’s Cathedral.
excerpt:
In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed,
In the Maritime Sailors’ Cathedral.
The church bell chimed till it rang twenty-nine times
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they call ‘Gitche Gumee’.
Superior, they said, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early!

